Paul R. Brass (University of Washington)

Paul R. Brass
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
and South Asian Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  USA

email: brass@u.washington.edu
url:   http://www.paulbrass.com

Description of work (lifted from webpage 10/22/04):

PAUL R. BRASS is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and 
International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has 
published numerous books and articles on comparative and South Asian 
politics, ethnic politics, and collective violence.
His work has been based on extensive field research in India during 
numerous visits since 1961. His most recent books are The Production of 
Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2003), Theft of an Idol: Text 
and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (1997); Riots and 
Pogroms (1996); and The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd ed. 
(1994).

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

2003: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. 
Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. 476

2002: Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar Ali 
Engineer. Ed. with Achin Vanaik. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.

1997: Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of 
Collective Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp. 298

1996: Riots and Pogroms. London and New York: Macmillan and NYU Press. Pp. 
252

1994: The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd edition, vol. iv:i of 
the New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
Pp. 403

1991: Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and
Comparison. New Delhi and Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Pp. 358.

1990: The Politics of India Since Independence,
vol. iv:i of the New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press. Pp. 357

1987: The Indian National Congress and Indian Society, 1885-1985: 
Ideology, Social Structure, and Political Dominance (with Francis 
Robinson). New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 480.

1985: Ethnic Groups and the State. London: Croom Helm. Pp. 341.

1985: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. II: Election 
Studies. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 325.

1984: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. I: Faction and 
Party. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 339.

1982: Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia (with 
Robert S. Anderson, Edwin Levy, and Barrie M. Morrison). Boulder, Colo.: 
Westview Press. 512 pp.

1974: Language, Religion, and Politics in North India. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press, 1974. 467 pp.

1973: Radical Politics in South Asia (with Marcus Franda). Cambridge: The 
MIT Press. 449 pp.

1965: Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar 
Pradesh. Berkeley, University of California. 262 pp.

SELECTED ARTICLES

2004: "Elite interests, popular passions, and social power in the language 
politics of India," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27 (No. 3) May 2004, 
pp. 353-375.

2004: "Muslims in Hindu Nationalist India," Center Conversations (April 
2004).

2003: "The Partition of India and Retributive Genocide in the Punjab, 
1946-47: Means, Methods, and Purposes," Journal of Genocide Research 
(2003), 5(1), 71-101.

2003: "Review Article: Rulers of India," Economic Development and Cultural 
Change, 51: 2 (January 2003), 523-28.

2002: "India, Myron Weiner, and the Political Science of Development,"
Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVII, No. 29 (July 20-26, 2002), 3026-40.

2000: "The Strong State and the Fear of Disorder," in Francine R. Frankel, 
et al. (eds.), Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of 
Democracy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press). Pp. 60-88

1984: "National Power and Local Politics in India: A Twenty-Year 
Perspective," Modern Asian Studies, XVIII, No. 1 (February, 1984), 89-118.

1968: "Coalition Politics in North India," The American Political Science 
Review, LXII (December, 1968), 1174-1191.

BOOK REVIEWS

2003: "The World's Largest Hypocrisies"; Review of The Maverick Republic: 
Thirty Years of Coverage by Jawid Laiq; Roli Books, New Delhi, 2000.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2004: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Contemporary India: From Partition 
to the Present.